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INDEX.

Altai Chain, first mentioned by Pto-
lemy, 351
Amanus, Ml, 126, 257; crossed by

the main Roman road, 305
Amasis, his encouragement of the

Greeks, 57

Amber trade, in Homer, 31; route
through Pannonia, 32; route
through Gaul, 32; iu the hands of
the Phoenicians in the Mediterra-
nean, 33 ; at the mouths of the Po,
33; in the German Sea, 164
Ammonium, 128
Amu Daria, river, 134
'Anabasis,' of Xcnophon, 113; of

Arrian, 124
Anaxagoras, on the inundation of the

Nile, 63; on earthquakes, 198
Anaxhnander, his views on the shape
of the earth, 60; introduced the
gnomon into Greece, 64; the first
map-maker, 64; on earthquakes,
197
Anthropology, 203; Strabo's interest

in, 246

Antichthones, 262
Antimenidas, 58
Antonine Itinerary, the, 306
Antoninus, his wall in Britain, 288
Aornos, 137

Apes, mode of catching in India, 201
Aquae Albulae, 355
Arabia, carefully described by Era-
tosthenes, 183
Arabia Eu^aemon, 276
Arabian Geographers, acquainted with

Ptolemy's 'Geography,' 367
Arabian Gulf (Red Sea), 81
Arachosia, 133, 140
Aral, Sea of, unknown to the ancients,

82, 134

Ararat, Mt, 114, 130
Araxes, river, 73, 114, 116; con-
fusion of Herodotus about, 82; its
junction with the Cyrus, 221
Arbela, battle of, 129
Arcadia, disappearance of rivers in,

106
Archimedes, on the convexity of the

sea, 168
Archytas, 169
Arctic circle, different meanings of

the term, 179, 180
Arctic regions, described by Pytheas,

162

Arctic Sea, supposed to be navigable,
285

Arelate, 300
Argaeus, Mt, ascents of, 247, 321;
Strabo's description of, 321
Argippaei, a Kalmuck tribe, 87
Argonautic legend, 19; its historical
significance, 20
Ariana, description of, 130
Aristagoras, his map, 65; his share
in the Ionian revolt, 70; on the dis-
tance from Ionia to Susa, 90
Aristobulns, 124
Aristotle, his illustrations frequently
derived from Greece, ir, 185; his
notice of dwarfish tribes in Africa,
29; on the inundation of the Nile,
63; instructor of Alexander the
Great, 125; his mistake about the
Jaxartcs, 135 ; his importance to
scientific geography, 145, 166; on
the zones, 179; on rivers, 196; on
earthquakes and volcanic action,
198; on historical geography, 205
Armenia, geographical features of,
113,114; Xcnophon's march across,
116—18; campaigns of Lucullus in,
21:8
Armorica, no; visited by Pytheas,
155; Strabo's error about, 155
Aromata, prom., 274
Arrian, his history of Alexander's
campaigns, 124; description of the
Oasis of Ammon, 128; account of
the voyage of Nearchus, 141; his
Periplus, 294
Arsanias, river, 219, 270
Arsene, lake, 268
Artacoana, 133
Artemidorus, 190
Asia, boundaries of, 68, 69; meaning
of the name of, 69; scanty notices
of the geography of in Herodotus,
89; Strabo's account of, 256; no-
tices of Eastern Asia, 280
Asia Minor, products of, 46; mis-
taken views about the width of, 79,
89, 323; carefully described by
Strabo, 258
Aspects of nature revealed by Alex-
ander's expedition, 124
Astaboras, river, 146, 204
Astacus, 50
Astarte, represented by the Greek
Aphrodite, 5 j worship of at Eryx,
6; plants the pomegranate in Cy-
prus, 39
Atabyrium, in Rhodes, temple of
Zeus on its summit, 318; the same